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New research: positive mental health promotion among young people

8 Jan 2019

The research project ‘Confident Futures: Collaborative and participatory learning from successful youth initiatives’ has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the municipality of Amsterdam. The ...

New research shows EU citizens’ views on unemployment insurance

11 Dec 2018

Are EU citizens ready to share the risk of unemployment crises hitting their countries? Certainly! A team of political scientists from the University of Amsterdam shows European citizens’ attitudes towards ...

Great Thinkers on YouTube-Ewald Engelen presenting the work of Karl Marx

'I am not a spy!'

9 Jan 2018

Through an Open Access book and comic strip series UvA political scientists share their fieldwork experiences in authoritarian contexts. They offer their insights into this particularly challenging area of field ...

E-version of 'Broken Limbs, Broken Lives' Ethnography

29 June 2017

An e-version of Shahaduz Zaman's 'Broken Limbs, Broken Lives: Ethnography of a Hospital Ward in Bangladesh' was released this month. The ethnography was originally published in 2005 as the outcome of PhD research ...

Mapping the New African Diaspora in China: Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging

19 May 2017

When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, ...

Impact story: informing the politicised debate on deportation

15 May 2017

Anthropologist Barak Kalir unravels the highly politicised context in which deportation takes place. He offers policymakers and practitioners in the field a critical perspective on current deportation regimes, their ...

New on YouTube: Ria Reis presents Mary Douglas

31 Mar 2017

Ria Reis presents the work of Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1921-2007). In her work Mary Douglas focused on ordinary life allowing her to refocus her anthropological gaze from the small scale societies to the complex ...

New on the Social Science YouTube channel: Barak Kalir presents the work of Hannah Arendt

24 Mar 2017

At a time when the world takes a sharp turn to the right, and as millions of people escape their state in search of refuge in Europe and elsewhere, revisiting the work of Hannah Arendt could hardly be more timely for ...

UvA Social Sciences in top 50 QS World University Ranking by Subject

9 Mar 2017

The Social Sciences as listed in the top 50 of the QS Ranking: Sociology in 14th place (same as in 2016), Anthropology 14th (was 15), Geography 16th (was 14), Social Policy & Administration 32nd (was 29), Politics & ...

New videos on social science research online

17 Feb 2017

The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) published twelve short videos in which researchers present latest research results within the themes of Security Practices, Gender & Sexuality and Research ...

Reinstate community health workers to reach vulnerable populations

26 Jan 2017

In their article in PLOS Danny de Vries and Robert Pool discuss the potential of Community or Lay Health Workers to reach vulnerable populations in low-income countries. Interventions to reduce priority health ...

Great Thinkers on YouTube-Nicky Pouw presenting the work of Amartya Kumar Sen

23 Jan 2017

Dr Nicky Pouw presents the work of Amartya Kumar Sen (1933-), Indian philosopher and economist and Nobel Prize winner for his theoretical contributions to the ethics of economics and his life-long work on poverty and ...

Mario Rutten Thesis Award Anthropology

22 Dec 2016

Bert Derkx received the first Mario Rutten Thesis Award for the best Master thesis 2015-2016. For his Master ‘Medical Anthropology and Sociology’ Derkx wrote an impressive thesis on storytelling and narratives by ...

The prize was awarded at the AAA meeting in Minneapolis by the Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) Special Interest Group (SIG) at the the Society of Medical Anthropology, for her paper 'Only near is dear? Doing ...

First Great Thinkers on YouTube-Geoffrey Underhill presenting Adam Smith

24 Nov 2016

Professor Geoffrey Underhill presented the work of Adam Smith (1723 -1790), Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy and key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Not only did Underhill explore the ...

Judith van de Kamp wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Award

Empty Home. A film about fast urbanisation in China

24 Nov 2016

In contemporary China, cities are growing fast with large-scale investments in urban housing to accommodate rural-urban migration. UvA anthropologists Sanderien Verstappen and Willy Sier made a documentary about the ...

There has been an extraordinary growth in Pentecostalism in Africa, with Brazilian Pentecostals establishing new transnational Christian connections, initiating widespread changes not only in religious practice but ...

Call for Emotion Methodology workshop

4 Nov 2016

Emotions are messy and slippery. Despite our efforts, they can evade capture. This workshop aims to bring together UvA researchers at various levels and across disciplines and theoretical and methodological ...

Launch of the AISSR Great Thinkers Seminar Series

14 July 2016

In September 2016 the AISSR launches a new series in which social science researchers present the work of a great thinker in their field immersing us in key features of the social science canon. They shall explore ...

Wrestling with hope

7 July 2016

AISSR PhD Mark Hann teamed up with Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Khouma Gueye with the goal of making a film about the hopes, desires, and lives of aspiring athletes in Senegal. The collaboration resulted in the ...

Medical research in television and film

5 July 2016

Marci Cottingham (UvA) and Jill A. Fisher (University of North Carolina) analysed 65 television shows and films to see how popular media portray medical research and clinical trials. They found that research ...

Chatting about marriage with female migrants to Syria

6 June 2016

For some time now reports have appeared in the media about women leaving for Syria, either as ‘jihadi brides’ or as militant activists. In their anarrative in 'Anthropology Today' Aysha Navest, Martijn de Koning and ...

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences selects Anita Hardon as new member

3 June 2016

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has selected sixteen new members. Academy members are prominent researchers active in all the disciplines. New members are nominated by peers from within and outside ...

Digital sister for urban youth

6 Apr 2016

Medical anthropologist Anita Hardon received a NWO WOTRO grant for an international research project on urban youth in Bangladesh and their access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services and ...

Non-state security groups in the struggle against extremism in Kenya, Nigeria and Indonesia

6 Apr 2016

Anthropologist Laurens Bakker received a NWO WOTRO grant for a study of the role played by non-state security groups in the provision of ‘human security’ in Fragile and Conflict-affected states in contexts of violent ...

Ethnographic research and health care in India

31 Mar 2016

Health-related debt in India has pushed many low and middle-income households into poverty. Health planners in India advocate for the expansion of health insurance. Ethnographic research can help understanding the ...

IMES launches podcast on migration and politics

18 Mar 2016

In the course of the mass reporting on recent migration developments, IMES responds to the demand for informed commentary on the politics of migration by launching the Morning Meetings on Migration (4M) Podcast. The ...

In Memoriam Mario Rutten

5 Jan 2016

It is with sadness we wish to inform you of the death of our colleague, Mario Rutten, Professor of Comparative Sociology and Anthropology of Asia at the Department of Anthropology and the Amsterdam Institute for ...

Introducing Urban Anthropology

11 Dec 2015

Rivke Jaffe en Anouk de Koning provide an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in ...

Integration processes in Europe. Two new Open Access publications

24 Nov 2015

Europe has become a continent of immigration in the course of the last half century, and European societies have experienced growing ethnic and cultural diversity. International and multidisciplinary teams of ...

Movie clips AISSR Harvest Day online

20 Nov 2015

On 10 November 2015 the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), organized its second Harvest Day. During this day 13 researchers presented fresh research results. The movie clips of these researchers ...

Jeremy Boissevain passed away

7 July 2015

With great sorrow we inform you that, after a short illness, our dear colleague Professor Jeremy Boissevain, has passed away at the age of 86. As Professor of Anthropology, Jeremy Boissevain conducted several ...

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